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028			_a: Donated by (IRGS Dept.) Dr. Jabin Thomas _b: SNIOE
082			_a954.6 GUP
100			_aGupta, Virendra.
100			_a; Bansal, Alok.
245			_a Pakistan Occupied Kashmir _b: The Untold Story. _c/ Virendra Gupta.
260			_aNew Delhi _b : Manas Publications _c, 2007.
300			_a250p. _c: 24cm.
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520			_aWhat happens when an overtly sensitive and highly erudite small town girl is forced into a bizarre marriage with a big town's insensitive 'politically ambitious brute'? 'The marriage is doomed from the day one and unfortunately to last forever!' So what should she do? Pray to her eight million, four hundred thousand gods and goddesses, like her Grandma did or sink the pain in Cocktail glasses, the way her Ma was doing! But, she being SHE, refuses to be a mute witness to her own physical, emotional and intellectual rape by her own people and leaves the country to land into liberating surroundings of Adelaide in South Australia. There, enters her life her American beau, a Nobel laureate whose teachings in Economics give her the perspective to look at life de novo. While digging through the institution of arranged marriage that often treats woman as a commodity, she unravels the stinking rot that prevailed in the name of marriage in the lives of three generations of her family. She delves deeper and deeper into layers of hypocritical norms and sexist practices prevalent in society for ages. Meanwhile amid a kaleidoscopic backdrop of gripping events involving aboriginals, gays, junkies, street performances, mythology, conspiracy, murder and issues of homosexuality, racism, terrorism and notions of love, sex and religion; her dreams start taking wings. But, life plays truant once again. She returns to India where destiny had set up a thrilling game in which she could not but be a pawn once again. What would she do now? A very riveting soulful tale of a sensitive soul stifled under the weights of a decayed marital relationship attempting to let its real self unshackle!
650			_aAzad Kashmir
650			_aPolitics and government
650			_aPOK
700			_aVirendra Gupta
942			_cBOOK
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